The Nationals can also keep alive their chance to finish with a .500 record. They need to win their final four games to go 81-80, which would be their best record since baseball returned to Washington. Ross Detwiler will follow the best start of his career, his 7 1/3 shutout innings against the Phillies last week.

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Adam Kilgore covers national sports for the Washington Post. Previously he served as the Post's Washington Nationals beat writer from 2010 to 2014.

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